By Ira Zunin on April 7, 2018 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

By Ira Zunin Posted on April 7, 2018 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

Hawaii should not have passed a law to condone actively facilitating death. During this legislative session a Pandora’s box was opened for medically assisted death in the form of House Bill 2739.
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By Ira Zunin on August 5, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

By Ira Zunin Posted on August 5, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

Repealing Obamacare is not the answer. Placing it under siege is even worse. Efforts to forge a bipartisan solution to improve and refine this legislation, which is already insuring so many more Americans, is the only reasonable course of action.
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By Ira Zunin on July 1, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

By Ira Zunin Posted on July 1, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

Mindfulness exercises assisted patients in better understanding their pain and to separate the actual pain from fear, uncertainty and old memories. It also helped participants make better lifestyle choices and assess appropriate activity levels, food intake and how much medication they actually needed.
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By Ira Zunin on April 29, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

By Ira Zunin Posted on April 29, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

How can we best overcome the myriad obstacles to achieving sustainable health through balance, ranging from the stress encountered in our workaday lives to unproductive lifestyle patterns to poor relationship choices?
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By Ira Zunin on March 4, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

By Ira Zunin Posted on March 4, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

To be sure, we must be more measured in choosing interventional care if there is little chance for quality of life and more prepared to withdraw care that extends life artificially, but we should never pass a law that condones actively facilitating death by any means.
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Ira Zunin on February 4, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

Ira Zunin Posted on February 4, 2017 • Updated on September 21, 2018 at 4:26 pm

With continuing support from the state Legislature and the National Cancer Institute, the University of Hawaii Cancer Center will reach its full potential as a world-class institution at the forefront of groundbreaking cancer research, prevention and clinical treatment.
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